How to make green beer for St Patrick’s Day

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St Patrick's Day cocktail recipes

If green beer isn't your thing, here are some green St Patrick's Day cocktail recipes.

Emerald Isle Martini

Makes 1 cocktail 

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce gin
• 1 ounce green colored crème de menthe
• 2 drops bitters
• Mint leaves for garnish

Directions:

1. Combine all liquid ingredients in a martini shaker with ice. Shake until frothy.
2. Strain into an ice-cold martini glass and garnish with a few springs of mint.

Drunken Green Fairy

Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients:

• 1 shot Bailey's Irish Cream
• 1 shot absinthe
• 2 shots Irish whiskey

Directions:

1. Pour the Irish cream in a tumbler. Top with absinthe, then top with whiskey. The cocktail will have a layered effect.
2. This can also be made into a shot by using 1/2 shot of Irish cream and absinthe and 1 shot of whiskey, layered in a shot glass.

Emerald Beach

Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce Midori
• 2 ounces vodka (plain or flavored)
• Few drops white cranberry juice
• Berries or lime for garnish

Directions:

1. Combine all liquid ingredients in a martini shaker with ice.
2. Shake well and pour into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with fruit.

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